American actor Lee Daniels is in trouble for allegedly making a defamatory statement against his co-actor Sean Penn.
Sean Penn, who co-created Empire in 2014 with Daniels, has filed a $10 million defamation lawsuit at a New York Supreme Court on Tuesday, asserting that Lee Daniels made a malicious comment about him in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter—and he’s going the extra mile to compare him to Empire star Terrence Howard for maltreating women.